Colorado

Resource	Category	Carriers	Purpose
Medicaid Reimbursement for Maternal Depression Screening and Care for Postpartum Depression This case study uses Colorado APCD data to evaluate the state's 2014 Medicaid reimbursement policy for postpartum depression screening during wel... State: Colorado	Medicaid	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Aligning Incentives or Gaming the System? The Impact of Insurer-Physician Acquisitions This case study uses Colorado APCD data to examine a 2017 insurer-physician acquisition, finding that integration inflated Medicare Advantage diagnosi... State: Colorado	Health Reform, Insurance Department, Researchers	Commercial, Medicare	Cost, Utilization
Insurance gaps at age-19 and age-26 health insurance eligibility thresholds by childhood-onset condition severity, Colorado 2014-2018 This case study uses Colorado APCD data to examine insurance gaps at the age-19 Medicaid and age-26 commercial coverage cutoffs, finding that roughly ... State: Colorado	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Insurance gaps at age-19 and age-26 health insurance eligibility thresholds by childhood-onset condition severity, Colorado 2014-2018 This case study examines health insurance coverage gaps among Colorado young adults at two age-based cutoffs — losing Medicaid at 19 and aging off par... State: Colorado	Consumers, Employers, Providers	Commercial, Medicaid	Utilization
Exogenous Testosterone Is Associated with Lower Odds of Stroke in Young Men: An Exploratory Analysis of the Colorado Claims Database The abstract reports that establishing a stroke transition-of-care clinic — where patients are seen by neurology within two weeks after hospital disch... State: Colorado	Population Health	Commercial	Quality
Curbing the Growing Fragmentation of Veterans’ Health Care This study quantifies a major shift in locus of VA critical care, a likely outcome of expanded non-VA health insurance coverage that was previously ca... State: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin	Consumers, Health Reform, Medicaid, Population Health, Providers	Medicaid	Utilization
State Efforts To Monitor Outpatient Facility Fees Colorado, Maine, Connecticut, and Washington—have collected and analyzed data on outpatient facility fee billing within their borders. This growing in... State: Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Washington	Consumers, Providers, Researchers	Commercial	Cost
Z-Coding for Social Contributors to Health in Colorado Federally Qualified Health Centers This study looked at the prevalence of social contributor Z codes for patients receiving services through Colorado’s Federally Qualified Health Center... State: Colorado	Consumers	Commercial, Medicaid	Cost, Quality, Utilization
Analysis of proposed legislation to provide dental coverage for individuals with head and neck cancers The Colorado Division of Insurance (DOI) commissioned Milliman, Inc. to review a potential legislative proposal that would require all commercial heal... State: Colorado	Insurance Department	Commercial	Cost
Comorbidity and Multimorbidity in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Findings From a Multi‐Site Population‐Based Study This study leverages the CO APCD and other state data resources to study Congenital Heart Disease comorbidities in adults living with the condition. State: Colorado	Population Health	Commercial	Utilization

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